Leisure Activity Participation Pattern Among Klang Community

  • Nur Aktif Najmi Zurkifli Fakulti Sains Sukan dan Rekreasi, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
  • Rozita Abdul Latif Fakulti Sains Sukan dan Rekreasi, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Keywords: pattern of participation, activities done in a week, Klang community

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to identify the pattern of participation of Klang community towards leisure time activity. This study involved 421 total respondents in Klang. The methodology used was quantitative method and the instrument of the questionnaire was adapted and adopted from Godin and Shephard, (1997). Besides, the results also showed facility near a community that may be used by them and the questionnaire was adapted and adopted from Sylvia, (2004). The results showed a different group of people run different patterns of activity as these activities counted daily in a week. Overall Klang community had chosen activities in house as their most done activities such as surfing the internet and cooking. Besides, the different groups of gender used to run different sports activities same goes to a different group of ages as badminton and futsal were most sports activities done by the community. In conclusion, a different group of gender and ages run different patterns of activities in Klang.

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Published
2020-02-18
How to Cite
Zurkifli, N. A. N. and Abdul Latif, R. (2020) “Leisure Activity Participation Pattern Among Klang Community”, Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH), 5(2), pp. 21 - 35. doi: 10.47405/mjssh.v5i2.355.
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